Legal Research Links by Subject
Topics covered on this page: Adoption | Agriculture | ADA | Bankruptcy | Bar Exams/Review | Business | Case Law | Child Abduction | Child Support | Civil Rights | Consumers | Continuing Legal Education (CLE) | Courts
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Adoption
- Adoption Policy Resource Center provides self-help resources, articles, and links.
- How to Make Adoption an Affordable Option site is sponsored by the National Endowment for Financial Education.
- Kansas Adoption Laws are found at KSA 59-2111 to 59-2144.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway - Adoption Resources on all aspects of domestic and intercountry adoption. on all aspects of adoption for professionals, policy makers, and the general public.
- U.S. Adoption Laws by State listing includes statute citations and contact information.
Agriculture
- National Agricultural Statistics Service, most in spreadsheet format. Access by title, subject, agency, or keyword.
- Farm Bill sites indexed by NCARLI.
- AgEBB is an electronic network among farmers, University Extension Specialists and University faculty.
- AgEcon Search has papers from various institutions and conferences.
- Agricultural Law Research Guide.
- Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA) offers publications, graphics, historic data.
- American Agricultural Law Association focuses on the legal needs of the agricultural community.
- Center for Rural Affairs site offers a monthly newletter, information on small business loans, and highlights of legislative action.
- Farmer's Legal Action Group, Inc. includes news releases, special projects, publications, and related links.
- Kansas Department of Agriculture.
- State Statutes re: Agriculture links to various states' statutes.
Americans with Disabilities
- ADA Home Page contains information and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Delivering on the Promise: Report of Federal Agencies' Actions to Eliminate Barriers and Promote Community Integration.
- Disability.gov site is searchable and is divided into ten broad thematic areas.
- Disability Law links compiled by LawResearch.
Bankruptcy
- Kansas Bankruptcy Law includes a list of state exemptions, a description of the bankruptcy process, and answers to frequently asked questions.
- Bankruptcy Code (Title 11)
- Legal Information Institute: Bankruptcy Law Materials
- InterNet Bankruptcy Library
- Directory of Web Sites of United States Bankruptcy Courts
- Bankruptcy Legal Research Guide from the KU Wheat Law Library
Bar Exams/Review
- KU Bar Exam Resource Guide
- Past Questions & Sample Answers from the Missouri Bar Exam
- Bar/Bri Bar Review.
- Barexam.org is a collaboration between the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and the various boards of bar examiners across the United States.
- Bar Plus Bar Review Information about the MBE, MPRE, MPT, MEE, and every state bar exam, with free links to actual bar exam questions and answers.
- Bar Review Preparation from Celebration Bar Review Provides bar review preparation for the bar examinations of California, Florida, Georgia and Texas.
- National Conference of Bar Examiners.
- Patent Bar Review.
- PMBR Bar Review
- The Study Group Personal Bar Review - Offers complete bar review courses, essay and MBE-only programs, Performance Test and Bar Exam Essay Writing courses.
Business
- Hoover's OnLine has company capsules, stock quotes, other business information.
- Kiplinger Online provides business forecasts and personal finance advice, news of the day, business letters, and Kiplingers Magazine.
- CorporateInformation for researching companies around the world.
- Research & Reference Gateway: Research Guides: Business.
- Small Business Knowledge Base offers free guides, worksheets, and tools for managing a small business.
- Quitamhelp.com is a forum for those interested int the qui tam whistleblower law and practice.
- Business.gov related to government contracting/procurement and other aspects of doing business in the US.
- Uniform Commercial Code Research Guide.
- United States Small Business Administration site includes information on starting a business, financing a business, different business opportunities, and the laws and regulations governing small businesses.
Case Law
- Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions (published) since 1996.
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit opinions since 1997.
- U.S. Supreme Court opinions since 1990.
- Federal Court Links.
Child Abduction
- Child Alert Foundation is a non profit organization that assists police, 911 and other law enforcement agencies notify the public of a child abduction.
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children serves as a focal point in providing assistance to parents, children, law enforcement, schools, and the community in recovering missing children and raising public awareness about ways to help prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation.
- Parental Abduction legal information provided by the American Bar Association.
- International Parental Child Abduction information from the State Department.
Child Support
- Child Support Enforcement site with basic program information, news and announcements, reports, policy documents, and links to related information.
- Each State's child support programs.
- Child Support Guidelines for Kansas.
Civil Rights/Personal Freedoms
- American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Network provides information on activities involving individual's rights in Congress and the courts, as well as news releases
- Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation.
- Employment Discrimination/Termination Research Guide.
- Every Door Closed: Barriers Facing Parents With Criminal Records examines the obstacles parents with criminal records face when trying to reintegrate into society.
- First Amendment Center features excellent research coverage of key First Amendment issues and topics.
- Free Speech Movement Digital Archive provides transcriptions of legal defense documents, leaflets passed out by members of the movement, letters from administrators and faculty members regarding the movement and student unrest, and oral histories.
- Free Expression Clearinghouse provides information on First Amendment issues to the Internet community.
- HHS Rules for Patient Privacy guidance materials on new federal privacy protections for medical records and other personal health information.
- Historical Publications of the US Commission on Civil Rights.
- HURISEAR is a vertical search engine, capturing only human rights-related information produced by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) available in a wide variety of formats and languages.
- Tribal Law Legal Research Guide.
- Open Society Justice Initiative offers resources on the protection of human rights.
- Peru in The Eye of the Storm includes forty-one declassified U.S. government documents, detailing human rights violations over the past 20 years in Peru.
- Traffic Stops Statistics Act of 1997 is an article by Mark Drake.
- US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission includes federal laws prohibiting job discrimination, how to file a charge against your employer for discriminatory practices, small business information, and data on the federal sector.
Consumer Information
- Consumer Law Center helps consumers, their advocates, and public policy makers use powerful and complex consumer laws on behalf of low-income and vulnerable Americans seeking economic justice.
- Consumer World links to over 1400 consumer resources on the Internet.
- Currency - FAQs Treasury Department site answers commonly asked questions about US currency: amount printed, how portraits are selected, redeeming notes, etc.
- FTC's Top 10 Consumer Fraud Complaints of 2006 report has recently been released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
- National Fraud Information Center is a project of the National Consumers League; helps consumers report fraud and offers helpful advice on how to avoid becoming a victim.
- Uniform Commercial Code Research Guide.
- Internet Crime Complaint Center, an FBI & National White Collar Crime Center partnership.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
- Kansas Continuing Legal Education Commission
- Continuing Legal Education information from the Kansas Bar Association.
- CLE Forms from the Kansas Continuing Legal Education Commission.
- Rules Relating to Continuing Legal Education for the state of Kansas.
- ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education
Courts
- National Drug Court Institute, a division of NADCP, was established in 1997.
- Federal Courts index compiled by the KU Wheat Law Library
- Understanding the Federal Courts.
- Kansas Judicial Branch.
- Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals site for court calendar, rules, and practitioner's guide.
- Tenth Circuit Opinions indexed by case name, docket number, date; keyword searchable.
- Criminal Law and Procedure Research Guide.